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The first thing you notice about these performances is the dark, registrally differentiated timbres of Garrick Ohlsson’s Bösendorfer grand piano. Listeners steeped in recorded Beethoven
Composed for the re-opening of the Esterhaza opera house in 1781, La fedelta premiata, a pastoral semi-buffa opera, concerns itself with the goddess Diana’s decree,
Violinist Curtis Macomber probably is best-known, at least on recordings, for his advocacy of contemporary works. However, here he plays the unabashedly romantic violin sonatas
In its autumnal mood, Brahms’ E minor cello sonata Op. 38 looks forward some three decades to the composer’s final chamber works–or at least it
Chopin composed only 19 songs, but they cover almost his entire compositional career, from 1829 to 1847. They are direct and uncomplicated, each dealing with
Chopin’s Mazurkas embody some of the composer’s most daring creative ideas within a framework that strongly emphasizes his roots in traditional Polish song and dance.
